CHESTER – The preliminary damage assessment of Randolph County, Illinois was completed this morning. Six homes, eight out buildings and numerous campers were either damaged or destroyed. Randolph County Emergency Management is hoping to get the National Weather Service to do a storm damage survey soon to determine the exact cause of all the […]
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By Jim Beers CHESTER – Chester Grade School music students traveled to Carterville Junior High School Saturday March 1 to compete in the 2025 Illinois Grade School Music Association (IGSMA) District 3 Solo and Ensemble Contest. The students are under the direction of Sue Colonel who accompanied the students to the competition. Vicky Beers and
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Music will host a recital featuring the works from Mongolia’s best composers at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in the university’s Old Baptist Foundation Recital Hall. Mikka Chinbaatar, a graduate student in collaborative piano, and musician Bayarbaatar Bavuudorj (below) are among the artists featured in
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paulette Curkin Pride Resource Center and the Women’s Resource Center are hosting the SIU Women’s Film Festival, Monday and Tuesday, March 17-18. The free film screenings and discussions in Morris Library’s John C. Guyon Auditorium are open to the public. A discussion panel will follow each of the films.
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CHESTER – The Chester Gas, Water and Sewer Committee will meet in special session at 4 p.m. Monday, March 14 and 4 p.m. in the Chester Municipal Building. The official notice of the meeting and tentative agenda: NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING GAS, WATER & SEWER COMMITTEE CITY OF CHESTER, ILLINOIS
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CHESTER – The Chester City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, March 14 in the city Municipal Building, 1330 Swanwick Street, Chester, Illinois. The tentative agenda for the meeting: CHESTER, ILLINOIS CITY COUNCIL AGENDA March 14, 2025 CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE READING OF MINUTES
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CARBONDALE – The 28th annual Celebrate Women event will feature a Southern Illinois University Carbondale automotive technology instructor who will speak on the theme, “Driving Us Forward: Women in Automotive.” SIU School of Automotive students get hands-on learning. (Photo by Deangelo Handley) The event will be from 4:45-7:30 p.m. March 27 at the Glenn Poshard Transportation
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Treasures and hard-to-find items will be discovered when the Friends of Morris Library and WSIU Radio host a massive public sale at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March. The Book/Vinyl and Media Sale is March 21-22 in the Morris Library basement. The sale will run from 4 to 7 p.m. March 21 and 10 a.m.
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By Jim Beers CHESTER – Chester High School strongly encourages and recognizes and students who come to school. It is quite an accomplishment to maintain perfect attendance, so Principal Jeremy Blechle and Assistant Principal Robin Barton have made major attempts to honor and recognize those students who achieve perfect attendance each month. Pictured
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Four Southern Illinois University Carbondale Master of Music students will help everyone think of warmer weather ahead during a concert on Friday, March 21, in Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda. The Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series will present “SPRING” in a free, public program that starts at 4 p.m. The
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